Tamale, Feb 21, GNA – Miss Rhoda Asare-Larbie, a first-year Medical Student of the University for Development Studies (UDS), has emerged winner of the Federation of Ghana Medical Students’ Associations (FGMSA) Freshers’ Quiz Competition.
Miss Larbie displayed deep knowledge of the country’s history and medical issues in a thrilling competition that saw Mr Kwaku Ohene Amoani of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, emerged first runner up, Mr Caleb Okyere Darko of the University of Ghana taking the third position.
Mr Christian Foli of the University of Cape Coast and Mr Mensah-Tetteh Odehey of the University of Health and Allied Sciences took the fourth and fifth positions respectively.
The competition, held via zoom, tested the contestants’ knowledge of the country’s history, governance and current affairs, the standing committee and functions of the executives of the FGMSA, and the need for counselling among medical students as well as their ability to effectively combine leadership roles with their education.
It was organised by the FGMSA, which is a community of medical students in the country, as part of activities to contribute actively to ensuring that medical students become all-round doctors as well as help break the stereotype that medical students were always reading medical books.
It also formed part of week-long activities to celebrate, educate and welcome new medical students (freshmen and women) to their various Universities in the country.
Ms Asare-Larbie, who could not hide her joy, expressed gratitude to her UDS-Medical Students’ Association (MSA) President, Abena Otema Asiama-Kumi, who she said, had urged her to participate in the competition, and the MSA’s academic committee, whose efforts had brought her that far.
She also thanked the FGMSA executive board for its commitment to making the programme a success.
Professor Stephen Tabiri, Dean of the UDS Medical School, congratulated Ms Asare-Larbie for her sterling performance in the quiz and wished her well in her journey to become a medical doctor.
